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Meredith Mcpherron

Managing Partner at Drive by DraftKings

Greater Boston

Overview 

Meredith McPherron is the CEO and Managing Partner at Drive by DraftKings in Greater Boston, with a background in entrepreneurship, marketing strategy, and leadership. Highlights of her career include serving as a Board Member at Toya and investing in various companies such as Spren, Nextiles, and Burn Ghost Games.

Work Experience 

  • CEO and Managing Partner

    2020 - Current

    Drive by DraftKings is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in SportsTech and Entertainment. Drive by DraftKings' mission is to push the frontier of new markets and categories revolutionizing sports, gaming and media. Founding partners include DraftKings, General Catalyst, Accomplice and Boston Seed Capital.

Drive by DraftKings is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in SportsTech and Entertainment.

  • Investor

    2024

Triumph is a game-developing software firm.

Raised $14,100,000.00 from Valhalla Ventures, Steel Perlot, Raven One Ventures, Heroic Ventures, Strike Capital, Flux Capital, NOMO Ventures, MAGIC Fund, BoxGroup and Great Oaks Venture Capital.

  • Investor

    2024

Bandit Running is an apparel retail company that offers sports and athleisure apparel for men and women.

Raised $14,249,997.00.

  • Investor

    2024

  • Investor

    2021

WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.

Raised $404,751,000.00 from Thursday Ventures, Sahin Boydas, SoftBank Vision Fund, Accomplice, NextView Ventures, GP Bullhound, CAVU Consumer Partners, IVP and Animal Capital.

  • Investor

    2021

  • Investor

    2021

  • Board Advisor

    2017

    Own Up is a mortgage service with on-demand personal mortgage experts committed to securing home loans from certified local lenders that offer discounted interest rates.

Own Up is a technology company that assists in finding fair mortgage deals.

Raised $49,683,440.00 from Link Ventures, Brand Foundry Ventures, Listen, Techstars Ventures, Techstars and Rex Burgdorfer.

  • Innovation Fellow, Technology and Entrepreneurship Center

    2016

    Working together with an exciting team at SEAS to help mentor and advise enterprising young founders via 1:1 guidance and founding team development modules

  • Entrepreneur In Residence

    2017

    The Experts in Residence (EiR) are appointed by the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to provide Harvard students guidance on their new business ventures and entrepreneurial career paths. EiRs hold office hours in the Harvard i-Lab are available to students from all graduate and undergraduate schools.

  • Boston Lead

    2015

    Member of Boston Syndicates (BOSS), a group of founders that provides support and funding to Boston-based founders via a syndicated investment vehicle.

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